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01-15-2018, 05:17 PM | #92 | |
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Sigh. As you well know, I did not say any such thing. I said "Keep in mind that you are discussing contract law rather than copyright law. The author still holds the copyright on the article." I then said " The copyright holder can enter into a contract that gives exclusive license to someone else, but the author is still the copyright holder. Copyright law and contract law are two different legal traditions and different rules apply. " I finally said "I don't know, what does your contract say? You should probably check with your agent or lawyer if you are interested in getting the rights reverted back to you. Sometimes they will revert it back if it's a story they don't plan to republish. I've read more than a few authors talk about the process. " Obviously I made the mistake of thinking you were trying to have an honest discussion rather than play some sort of point scoring internet game. I'll try not to make that mistake again. |
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01-15-2018, 06:28 PM | #93 |
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@pwalker8. As you say, Sigh. I find your understanding of the Doctrine of Precedent faulty and your views as to its operation lacking. You do not seem to be interested in remedying this, so it is pointless for me to discuss it further with you. For my part I agree to disagree.
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01-15-2018, 07:18 PM | #94 |
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Someone can hack into a system and get credit info on millions of people--on top of tons of other hacks--and no one can get to these books?
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01-15-2018, 07:22 PM | #95 | |
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"I asked someone who used to have that job, what would it take to make the books viewable in full to everybody? I wanted to know how hard it would have been to unlock them. What’s standing between us and a digital public library of 25 million volumes? You’d get in a lot of trouble, they said, but all you’d have to do, more or less, is write a single database query. You’d flip some access control bits from off to on. It might take a few minutes for the command to propagate." So close and yet so far... |
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01-15-2018, 07:28 PM | #96 | |
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01-15-2018, 08:42 PM | #97 | |
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Yes, I acknowledge I sent in the story and therefore gave over all rights. PS: I didn't get a contract to sign. So, you are the one showing that you don't have a clue as to how magazine copyright works. Whoever can publish the story is the copyright holder. |
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I'm unsure of US law, but unless you specifically assign or specifically transfer the copyright as part of the contract or conditions of publication, it stays your copyright. More than one author has actually sold their copyrights (Georgette Heyer sold one or two of her copyrights; The Peter Pan copyrights were assigned to the Ormond St children's hospital in London), and therefore no longer have any rights over the works. Some magazines or publishers demand assignment of copyright to them as part of the contract.
pwalker8 is right: you are dealing with two bodies of law: copyright (a statute) and contract (common law, but often codified into statue law different jurisdictions). When I was published commercially long ago, my standard contract licensed the publisher to exclusive publication rights so long as they stayed in print. Publication rights (not copyright, which was always mine) reverted automatically to me after a fixed period, so I could find another publisher if any might be interested. You've got to read in the fine print in the contract. If there's no written contract, and you've entered some competition or another, you've got to read the fine print in the conditions of entry. They bind you. It's a minefield for the innocent. As I think Dean Koontz once noted, an author is not in the business of selling copyrights, but only in licensing the use of his work to a publisher under agreed conditions. (If you really want to get rich, become a lawyer...) |
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No, that is one major flaw in the US. There is too many opportunistic lawyers making up excuses to sue for no good reason at all.
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And that example is why all paper coffee cups sold in retail outlets all have "Caution:contents may be hot." printed on them and their lids.
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01-16-2018, 01:11 PM | #102 |
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And a bottle of peanut butter had a warning "May contain peanuts". Just in case someone who was allergic to peanuts thought peanut butter was made from soybeans?
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"May contain peanuts"? When I buy peanut butter it damn well better contain peanuts, or else somebody's gonna have a whole lot of explaining to do.
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But then, of course, you should know that he didn't follow what he preaches. He did whatever was necessary to push his own agenda - whether that be in the best interest of the people or not. |
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